"A sophisticated and sympathetic portrayal of the 'dynamic tensions' faced by second-generation British Sikhs coming of age in Thatcherite Britain of the late 1980s and early 1990s. . . . An accessible book that can profitably be read by anthropologists, educators, and all those concerned with issues of citizenship and ethnic pluralism in modern nation-states."—Anthropos

Lives in TranslationSikh Youth as British Citizens

Kathleen D. Hall

1 Introduction: A Different Immigration Story2 From Subjects to Citizens3 The Politics of Language Recognition4 "Becoming like Us"5 Mediated Traditions6 "You Can't Be Religious and Be Westernized"7 "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian"8 Consciousness, Self-Awareness, and the Life PathEpilogue: An Unfinished Story